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If you want to hit the goals in your strategic plan, you have to be really good ...

There are a three core rules when it comes to surveying your employees, and, as ...

Once we finish our Culture Design project with clients, their next step is to be ...

We’re sure you’ve read the headlines about the Great Resignation and the dif ...

Accountability often gets raised only after we have missed our targets, and, fra ...

You don’t run a full culture assessment with your employees every day. In fact ...

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This one is real simple: to make your strategic plan a living document, you re-w ...

A critical piece to your system of execution (“getting shit done”) i ...

How do I maintain culture in a remote work environment? I get this question a LO ...

We are SO excited to introduce our brand new podcast for associations, co-hosted ...

If you want to successfully implement your strategy, then you’re going to need ...

If You Want Accountability, You Need a System Strategy is about making the right ...

How much do culture assessments cost? Unfortunately, that is one of those “how ...

We started defining culture this way back in 2013, mostly to prove the point tha ...

A lot of leaders ask me what kind of culture they need in order to more effectiv ...

Here’s the conventional wisdom around strategic planning: Step 1: develop your ...

The senior team I’m talking about here is the CEO and their direct reports, wh ...

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The recent McKinsey Global Survey on digital strategy reaches a very simple conc ...

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Remember the days before Uber, when you’d walk out to the curb and HOPE you’ ...

Just in case you missed it, here’s the Season 2 of Work @ Life wrap up epi ...

Are any of these issues top of mind for you?  A PROPEL culture workshop might b ...

I posted earlier this month about a new online coaching program we have launched ...

Why do leaders need a growth mindset? Because in these uncertain times, adaptab ...

That, of course, is much easier said than done. I can tell you right now, you’ ...

I was invited to present at Tech Forward 2021, which is a great conference for t ...

One of the biggest lessons in both business and life is that removing barriers o ...

Take part in the pilot of our group coaching program. I’ve been around the ass ...

In April, May, and June of this year, 11.5 million workers quit their jobs, acco ...

Associations do a pretty good job at articulating their vision or purpose. They ...

This is a guest post by Robert Barnes, a long time culture champion and Country ...

Last year, the number of women in the workforce briefly overtook the number of m ...

I have a hypothesis, and I don’t think you’re going to like it. What if, for ...

There are two basic versions of “teambuilding”: the light version, and the s ...

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Marketing General recently released its 13th Membership Report, and again includ ...

We read quite a bit around here, and we like to pass along the insights we gathe ...

  In this video post Jamie explains what’s in PROPEL’s on-deman ...

A lot of leaders spent the last few months putting in a place a plan to reopen t ...

Many organizations have their core values, credo, customer pledge or other repre ...

To be clear, I’m not implying that you are slacking. You’re not. If anything ...

Are you thinking about your goals for next year? I challenge you to consider cha ...

If the word of the year for 2021 (my last post) is intentional, then the skill f ...

 As we think about getting back to “normal” at work, what will we discover ...

This has been coming up over and over again in my conversations with clients and ...

In Washington, D.C., after a president is re-elected, an unwritten tradition kic ...

By now you are probably aware of the culture-driven performance coaching program ...

Make an informed decision about what your office will look like post-COVID Are y ...

In a recent post I offered up what I think is a better definition of accountabil ...

That question is not quite as simple as it sounds. At a high level, most would p ...

How would you describe your workplace culture to a promising prospective employe ...

Some teams make decisions very quickly. Surgical teams, for example, never ask, ...

Toxic culture can kill your business. It can increase employee churn, wreck merg ...

Have you found yourself reflecting more about your life since the pandemic start ...

This is probably one of the biggest fears among leaders when it comes to culture ...

I am SO excited to announce that my latest white paper is out! And no surprise ...

One of the benefits of being part of the Blue Cypress “family” of companies ...

When the pandemic first started, one of my HR colleagues noted that the “prick ...

When we set out last year to write The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement, ...

Micromanagement is sometimes a gut reaction of people who are meticulous leaders ...

Our new coaching program is unique because it is rooted in a comprehensive syste ...

The work of every organization can boil down to one thing: making decisions. Dec ...

We are super excited to announce Season 2 of our popular livestream Work @ Life ...

This post was written by Jamie Notter and originally appeared on Forbes.com. Lo ...

Imagine you could go back to 2019 and draw a line across the middle of a blank p ...

When the pandemic disrupted your association’s work last year, did you immedia ...

As the saying goes, you either have a culture by design or a culture by default. ...

Everyone knows that strategic planning has failed when you create a beautiful bi ...

This article contains information about the future-of-work spectrum as measur ...

There’s a moment in most job interviews when the hiring manager will ask you i ...

Software solutions—even for association alignment—are everywhere. By some es ...

Please don’t google “definition of accountability in the workplace.” I jus ...

All organizations know that effort without intention would be a rocky foundati ...

When I tell people that my background is in the field of conflict resolution and ...

I was talking with a colleague the other day who said that in her experience, ma ...

Everybody makes hiring mistakes. According to Psychology Today, 33 percent of ne ...

Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) is gaining in popularity as an important work ...

As the saying goes, you either have a culture by design or a culture by default. ...

I don’t want to jinx it, but it looks like enough of us will be vaccinated in ...

A colleague asked me a great question the other day: What’s the biggest thing ...

Do your employees come to work when they’re sick—even if they have available ...

Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...

I recently did a webinar for Commonwealth Payroll and HR on “Helping Employees ...

 When the pandemic hit last year and forced us all to rethink everything we do, ...

Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...

When we were creating the WorkXO culture assessment, I had an assumption that ...

On March 19th, Jamie Notter, Co-founder and Culture Designer for PROPEL, gave a ...

Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...

I had a call with a CEO the other day who summarized a leadership challenge that ...

Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...

Is it time to conduct a culture assessment, especially post-2020? Join us for a ...

I’m doing a quick webcast next week where I will show you what the results of ...

I hear the word “value” in all sorts of association conversations lately: & ...

Every Tuesday, PROPEL’s co-founder Maddie Grant joins QuestionPro’s Sanja Li ...

Assess your culture right now, and you will have the opportunity to change the t ...

I started my career in the conflict resolution field, so conflict has always bee ...

As we talk to prospective clients, we hear a common refrain. It goes so ...

Introducing culture-driven business coaching to the association world has been ...

Almost a year ago, we all made a rapid shift to remote work. Looking back on it, ...

Most leaders I talk to are looking for growth. It doesn’t have to be exclusive ...

I feel like the default planning rubric in the association world is “last year ...

Your employees probably aren’t going to tell you they’re unhappy. And they m ...

Everyone knows that you need the following two things in order to be successful ...

Are you working to change your culture but find yourself overwhelmed by all the ...

[FREE WEBINAR] Overcoming Pandemic Fatigue A private discussion exclusively for ...

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. I hear a lot of leaders lamenting ...

Still working remotely for the foreseeable future? Now that many of us have sett ...

If you’re in the association space, you might have noticed a wave of acquisiti ...

Roundup –  What the Ten Rockefeller Habits Could Mean for Associations Ph ...

Mindfulness, defined by Meico Whitlock as “the mental state of focusing ...

Part 11 of a 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. If ...

Part 10 of a 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. We� ...

A lot of people have very specific interpretations of what “coaching” means ...

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com. You know a term has hit buzzword s ...

Part 9 of a 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. When ...

This is not another “2020 was a crazy hard year” post. 2020 was definitely c ...

Part 8 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. Ima ...

Part 7 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for Associations. If ...

Part 6 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations. A ...

Part 5 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations. A ...

Part 4 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations. D ...

This article was written by Jamie Notter for Forbes.com – the original c ...

Part 3 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations. &# ...

Part 2 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations R ...

Part 1 of an 11-part blog series on the Rockefeller Habits for associations &nb ...

A lot of organizations are feeling perhaps a slight bit of relief that they’ve ...

I started March of 2020 bracing myself for a three-month gauntlet of travel to c ...

You know how sometimes you get this image in your head of how hard or painful so ...

One of the participants in my Managing Generational Diversity training course on ...

I think a lot of people focus on improving employee engagement because they want ...

One of the paradoxes of culture is that they are simultaneously centralized and ...

For a project I’m working on, I dug out my old copy of Blue Ocean Strategy. I ...